Making students’ life easier - that is the promise from the winner of Garage48 Georgia 2015!

The hackathon weekend in Georgia brought together a real powerhouse of determination. There were 11 teams working on their idea day and night to deliver a working prototype by Sunday to present to the jury. The mentors did their best to support all the teams to survive this unforgiving time frame, thanks to their help and the dedication of teams 9 teams demod their product on Sunday.
Garage48 Georgia 2015 was an event full of good emotions and realization how many motivated people work in Georgia building and supporting the local startup ecosystem. We ran a panel where 6 different co-working and innovation spaces in Tbilisi were introduced by the people who run them. They provided us with amazing mentors to work with the teams and also with prizes to support the teams with work space and useful contacts. We are humbled here at Garage48 to be part of this local community now and want to contribute with our international know-how, bringing over mentors and helping to build this network further. We cannot wait to be back here for next Garage48 events!

We want to thank all our sponsors and supporters, especially the Estonian Development Fund for making this event possible and the Georgia’s Innovation and Technology Agency for all the local support.

The excitement was high at the final event - the winners were announced and all the hard work payed off with great prizes and an opportunity for ALL THE TEAMS to use GITA’s new technopark space for 1 year!

So without further ado, here are the winners of Garage48 hackathon Georgia 2015:

Overall Winner

DASSY

Dassy is a knowledge aggregator by students to create study groups to collect related materials. The idea rised from a real problem that the team lead had - how to organise and manage his students in study groups. Dassy plans to test the platform on real studemts already next week when the lectures start.

1st Runner Up

REHAPP

Rehapp is an app that helps people to rehabilitate after injury or trauma. The exercises are like a game, you need to fill goals and it gathers data for the doctor to track your progress.Team: Oto Alkhanishvili, Jemo Mgebrishvili, Lasha Tsatsashvili, Levan Melikishvili, Giorgi Vakhtangishvili

2nd Runner Up

SUPPLY DROP

The big problem these days are that people are not socializing in real life. Supply Drop is a game that encourages people to go outside and connect with each other in real life. It is a community based game where supplies are dropped all over the world, every player is provided with a map and they can unlock these chests when actually going to these places. Team: Nika Otiashvili - PM, Saba Abesadze - Backend, Rati Tsikolia - Designer, Sulkhan Pataridze - Marketeer, Aslam Mkhitariani - Front End, Feride Giashvili - Marketeer

Special Prize from Microsoft

HOLO

Holo is a protoype for 3D holograms for video calls.

Prize: Nokia Lumia phone

BLIST

Blist is an app that helps to find your favourite breed of your favourite animal. It ables you to share your experience about animals with others, also it ables you to find people to look after your pet while you’re away. Team: Giorgi Ckhaidze, David Ghlonti, Beka Kereselidze, Nika Kirkitadze

Prize: Nokia Lumia phone

Special Prize from GeoLab

SQUAREBALL

Squareball is a game with mathematical questions. It is based on tilt gravity - you have to move the ball to the right answer past obstacles. If you get the correct answer you move up a level. Squareball is fun and educational!Team: Omari Avazishvili, Nika Papiashvili, Dato Lelashili, Zura Kevlishvili, Luka Nadiradze, Nika Karguzashvili

Prize: GeoLab space for 1 year

Special Prize from Generator 9.8

CAUCASUS ART MAG

The idea of caucasusartmag.net is to bring together the South Caucasian culture capital agenda, to restore the cultural dialouge between the countries of the region and make them reachable for the rest of the world. We are building a social network for bringing together South Caucasian cultural representatives and their art and connecting them with everyone who is interested worldwide.